| It
was on this day... | 1898
First Auto Accident Death In UK | The
first person to die in a road accident in the UK was Henry Lindfield of Brighton,
England. He died on this day. |
| It
was on this day... | 1939
Gone With the Wind Director, George Cukor, Fired | The
producer, David O. Selznick, was said to be unhappy with the speed of filming
and with reported conflicts with Clark Gable, the star of the movie.
Cukor was replaced with Victor Fleming, who was to be awarded the Best Director
Oscar for the movie. |
| It
was on this day... | 1945
Dresden Destroyed | One
of the most controversial episodes of the allied attack on Germany in the Second
World war begins on this day. Dresden,
an historic German city ("the Florence of the Elbe") was neither a war
production center or an area of significant industrial production, however, it
was flattened by UK and US bombers dropping incendiary bombs. Estimates are of
between 35,000 to 135,000 dead. The
Allies claimed that by bombing Dresden, they were disrupting important lines of
communication that would have hindered the Soviet advance. It is also arguable
that this attack led to an earlier surrender of Germany than would otherwise have
occurred. |
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this page to a friend | | Birthdays | 1950 | Peter
Gabriel | 1944 | Jerry
Springer | 1944 |
Stockard Channing | 1942 | Peter
Tork | 1934 |
George Segal | 1933 | Kim
Novak | 1919 |
Tennessee Ernie Ford |
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News | 1895
Louis and August Lumiere patent movie camera-projector the 'Cinematographe' 1958
T-Bird (Ford Thunderbird) gets four seats. It has since become a classic of American
culture immortalized in such movies as Grease. |
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